Fyre Festival
We’ve Got a New Owner …
and It’s Not Ryan Reynolds
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Fyre Festival is prepared for its subsequent chapter … the notorious music pageant has been acquired by LimeWire — 8 years after its preliminary chaotic launch.
Reps for LimeWire inform TMZ … the software program firm has acquired the Fyre Festival model, with the aim of launching an entire new venture beneath this collaboration. The acquisition happened after a bidding warfare with Ryan Reynolds‘ firm, Maximum Effort.
A supply with information tells TMZ … Ryan put in a bid, since Maximum Effort was already making an advert for Visa skewering Fyre … so, why not?!
Reynolds has since congratulated LimeWire on profitable the bidding warfare, noting he appears to be like ahead to attending their first occasion … although, he jokes he’ll convey his “own pallet of water.”
LimeWire probably is not bothered by this jab, explaining of their announcement they do not plan on operating from the pageant’s messy historical past — promising a “reimagined vision for Fyre.”
While they keep tight-lipped on specifics for the rebrand, LimeWire CEO Julian Zehetmayr did make clear they are not bringing again the pageant.
He added … “We’re bringing the brand and the meme back to life. This time with real experiences, and without the cheese sandwiches.”
Remember, Fyre Festival made headlines again in 2017 after Billy McFarland and Ja Rule promised a luxurious pageant expertise within the Bahamas … with arriving attendees as a substitute encountering refugee-level facilities on the bottom.
The occasion sparked nationwide intrigue and have become the main target of two high-profile documentaries, Hulu’s “Fyre Fraud” and Netflix’s “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.”
Organizer McFarland was later convicted of fraud, occurring to serve 6 years in prison following the debacle.
McFarland tried to revive the pageant, rebranded as “Fyre 2,” earlier this 12 months, however finally needed to cancel the follow-up fest on account of scheduling points.
We’ll have to attend and see what LimeWire — a file-sharing platform widespread within the early aughts — has up its sleeves for Fyre’s subsequent chapter.
